Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — FOREIGA. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGA.

Asiatic cholera has been declared epidemic in the Spanish Province of Valencia. .. . Sir Peter Lumsden is to be given an enthusiastic reception by the Tories when he arrives in London.... An explosion of firedamp in the Philadelphia colliery near Durham, England, set fire to the top seam of. one of the pits and imprisoned 350 men and boys in the burning mine. At last accounts nearly all had been rescued alive... .The English Derby .was run in the presence of an unprecedented assemblage. Lord Hastings' Melton winning, with Paradox second, and Royal Hampton third. Archei rode the winner. Among the notabilities on the track were the Prince and Princess of Wales and family, the Dukes of Edinburgh and Cambridge, Senator Payne of Ohio, and Consul General Thomas M. Waller, with a large party of Americans. Premier Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that the Governments of Russia and England had come to an agreement over the points to be submitted to arbitration, and that an arbitrator had been selected.;. .Eighty-seven persons were killed in the City of Serinagur by the recent earthquakes. Reports from other points in the Vale of Cashmere state that whole villagesand toy ns were destroyed..... Sir Julius Benedict, the composer, has just died in London at the age of 81. He accompanied Jenny Lind on her tour of the United States in 1850.. . .Fred Archer, the phenomenal English jockey; won the Oaks stakes, at Epsom with Lord Cadogan's bay filly Lonely. Russia finds herself confronted with a new trouble on her northern frontier. The peasant tenantry of the Baltic prqyinces is inclined tb rebel against the oppression of the landlords. Agrarian outrages are frequent, and Stern measures of repression have been decided upon ...While Gladstone has so far receded from his original position as to insist on the renewal' of the crimes act in Ireland only in a modified form, Mr. Chamberlain ,and Sir Charles

Dilke, of the Cabinet, differ with him, and maintain that there is no reason and no prospect of any reason for a renewal of the act... .Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Cambridge, denounced the increase of the duties on liquor. To tax beer, he said, is virtually to tax barley. The present is not the proper moment to impose fresh burdens upon agricultqte- .. .The Prinseto of Wales is said to be trying to bring about a meeting between her husband and the Czar of Russia with a view to securing permanent peace. ....Sir Peter Lumsden, British Commis- 1 sioner in Afghanistan, arrived in London and received an ovation. :